Steve Kerr had left the Phoenix Suns a few weeks before the club elected to let Amar’e Stoudemire walk to New York. But the former Suns general manager agreed with ownership and the club’s medical staff that Stoudemire was a medical risk not worth taking.

“Yeah,” Kerr said. “I was on board with it.”

As Stoudemire recovers from yet another knee surgery and questions swirl over whether he’ll ever return to his All Star form, Kerr said he feels “sad” for his former player because “Amar’e just loves to play basketball.”

Yeah, back in the summer of 2010, Kerr warned about the future of Stoudemire's knees, citing other players who had entered the NBA straight out of high school, namely Tracy McGrady and Jermaine O'Neal.